Overview of The Star Game

Overview of the Myattian Star Game
Overview of The Star Game The Star Game is a three-dimensional board game [1] for two players [2] invented by David Myatt in 1975 [3][4] and subsequently used by the esoteric group the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) as occult sorcery [5][6] and as a three-dimensional representation of their occult system of septenary correspondences [5][7]. Each occult initiate is expected to make their own boards and pieces as a part of their occult training. The game was rst publicly outlined in the 1989 ONA text Naos: A Practical Guide to Modern Magick [8]. Boards, Pieces, and Gameplay There are two versions of the game, the simple and the advanced, with skill in the advanced form being a requirement for advancement to the ONA grade of Internal Adept [4]. When constructed, the advanced form of The Star Game is a large physical structure, usually six or more feet in height and three or more feet in width. The simple game has seven boards placed one above the other in a spiral, with the boards named after particular stars. Each board has nine black and nine white squares, making 126 squares in total over the seven boards. Each player (white and black) starts the game with three sets of nine pieces (27 pieces per player) with each piece allowed to move across a board, and up or down from board to board, in a dierent way. Only some types of pieces can capture other opposing pieces, and a captured piece is removed from the boards and plays no further part in the game. The seven boards are named Naos, Deneb, Rigel, Mira, Antares, Arcturus, and Sirius. At the start of the game, each player has six particular pieces on Sirius, three pieces on Arcturus, six pieces on Antares, three on Rigel, six on Deneb, three on Naos, and none on Mira. As in other board games, the players take turns to make their moves. The basic rule of play is that after a piece has been moved whether across a board or from one board to a higher or lower board it is transformed into another piece according to a set sequence and then can be moved according to its new designation. Another rule is that pieces can only stay on the Mira board for three moves.
The basic aim of the simple form of the game is for one player to place three of their pieces on certain squares on Mira, with the type of these pieces and their placing on that board decided by both players beforehand. The rst player to do this wins the game. This takes some skill and some time since not only can an opposing player capture pieces on Mira but also pieces are only allowed to stay on Mira for three moves, after which the player must move the piece. Depending on the skill of the player, to win a simple game takes from a few hours to a day or more. In the advanced Game, each board has six (minor) boards (three at each end), with there being additional pieces (more sets of nine for each player making 81 pieces per player). There are also additional rules regarding movement. In this version of The Star Game, each board is divided into three other levels so that there are four levels to each board, making a total of 308 squares over the seven main boards. Depending on the skill of the player, to win an advanced game can take several days. In both the simple and the advanced games, the pieces are usually small tetrahedrons (or small cubes) marked with the particular abstract symbol (or the particular occult symbol) which is used to designate that type of piece. There are two ways or methods of marking the pieces with the appropriate symbols. The rst way is to have a piece for each symbol, with the symbol painted or otherwise marked on the piece. This means making sucient extra (spare) pieces to enable the pieces in play to be changed when they are moved and become transformed into another piece. For example, when an () piece is moved it would be swapped for a spare () which in turn would be swapped for a spare () piece, and so on.
The second way is to paint or otherwise mark the face of the cube or the tetrahedron with dierent symbols in sequence. Thus, on the six faces of one cube there would be one piece with its faces/sides marked () () () () () (). In use, the symbol on the top of the cube - for example () - is the 'active' symbol, and designates the type of piece. When this () piece is moved, it becomes () so the cube is turned so that the () symbol is at the top. On its next move, this () piece would be transformed into () and the cube turned again so that the () symbol was at the top. This method of marking pieces also means that each player has to make extra (spare) pieces, although not as many as are required by the rst method.
References 1. James R. Lewis & Jasper Aagaard Petersen: The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism, Prometheus Books, 2008. p.625. ISBN 9781591023906 2. Jerey Kaplan & Tore Bjrgo: Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. Northeastern University Press, 1998. p.116 ISBN 9781555533328
3. http://lapisphilosophicus.wordpress.com/star-game-history-and-theory/ [Accessed 2013-02-02] 4. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2003. p.219. ISBN 9780814731550 5. Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition: Political Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles, in Per Faxneld & Jesper Petersen (eds): The Devils Party: Satanism in Modernity, Oxford University Press (2012), p.260. ISBN 9780199779246 6. Jerey Kaplan (editor): Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. AltaMira Press, 2000. p.236. ISBN 9780742503403 7. The septenary system of occult correspondences is unique to the Order of Nine Angles, and is represented by a Tree of Wyrd containing seven spheres (seven nexions) named after the fashion of early Arabic astrological and alchemical texts from the Middle East and North Africa Moon, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The whole septenary system is regarded as a symbolic (or archetypal) map of both the world of the unconscious mind of the sorcerer/sorceress and the world of the supernatural, with the ONAs seven fold way the progress of the initiate through the seven occult grades or stages being regarded as a practical guide to attaining knowledge of both these worlds, a knowledge that enables the sorcerer/sorceress to undertake successful works of External, Internal, and Aeonic, sorcery/magick. The ONAs complete system of occult training and methods of practical sorcery including The Star Game are given in detail in their 981 page text The Requisite ONA, available in pdf format (as of January 2013) at http://lapisphilosophicus.les.wordpress.com/2012/07/the-requisite-ona.pdf (pdf 49 Mbytes) 8. A facsimile (in pdf format) of Naos as issued by the ONA in 1989 is available (as of January 2013) at http://lapisphilosophicus.les.wordpress.com/2012/08/naospractical-guide-to-modern-magick.pdf (pdf 43 Mbytes)
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Further reading: http://regardingdavidmyatt.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/emanations-of-urania /Emanations of Urania

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